Hi all, after a month of work I'm pleased to announce that the Stem based replacement for Doctor is now live! https://gitweb.torproject.org/doctor.git https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-consensus-health/2013-September/ For those who aren't familiar with it, Doctor is a service that pulls hourly consensus information and checks it for a host of issues (directory authority outages, expiring certificates, etc). In the case of a problem it notifies tor-consensus-health@, and we in turn give the authority operator a heads up. The new version of Doctor replaces Karsten's java based counterpart and is part of our ongoing scheme to eventually deprecate Metrics-lib in favor of Stem... https://trac.torproject.org/8252 Other news this month includes... * Arlo Breault added DNSEL exit list parsing to Stem! https://stem.torproject.org/api/descriptor/tordnsel.html https://trac.torproject.org/8255 * Stem now mirrors Tor's hardcoded directory authority information (both required for the stem.descriptor.remote module and handy for scripting)... https://stem.torproject.org/api/descriptor/remote.html#stem.descriptor.remot... * Added an example of remote descriptor fetching to our tutorials... https://stem.torproject.org/tutorials/mirror_mirror_on_the_wall.html#where-c... * FAQ entry describing other controller libraries... https://stem.torproject.org/faq.html#are-there-any-other-controller-librarie... * FAQ entry for the various ways of instantiating a Controller... https://stem.torproject.org/faq.html#how-do-i-connect-to-tor * FAQ entry describing python's 'with' keyword (this has been a common point of confusion for new stem users)... https://stem.torproject.org/faq.html#what-is-that-with-keyword-i-keep-seeing... * Looked a bit unreliability regarding Tor's DirPort. Unfortunately requests for compressed descriptor data frequently fail with a truncated response, so Doctor is now requesting uncompressed data (bad, but likely better than hammering authorities with retries). https://trac.torproject.org/9379 * Assigned joint copyright of Stem to The Tor Project so it can live on if I get struck by a meteor, swallowed by a dragon, etc. * Support for new Tor capabilities including TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED events and bridge-ip-transports lines in extrainfo descriptors. * Overhauled the layout of arm's codebase so it'll behave like a more proper python module. * Discussed using Stem for Bridgedb with sysrqb and isis. https://trac.torproject.org/9380 * Answered a few controller related questions on Stack Overflow... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18561778/how-do-i-get-the-ip-address-of-t... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18372615/tors-stem-module-python-failing http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18578908/torctl-errors-out-with-torctl-co... Cheers! -Damian